Habits enable effortless navigation of complex environments by applying previously reinforced goal-directed behaviors learned through repetition. Yet, goal-directed and habit-learning may also be coopted in neural disorders ...

The investigation and manipulation of novel magnetic textures within topological quantum materials is emerging as a new frontier for future spin-based electronic devices. Recently, transition-metal based kagome magnets ...

Quinolone derivatives have been used as antibiotics since the introduction of nalidixic acid in the 1960s. Antibiotic quinolone drugs are thought to bind to DNA, inhibiting the action of topoisomerase II, an enzyme which ...

The myrrh genus, Commiphora, comprises a clade of nearly 200 species of shrubs and trees that grow in warm tropical regions in Africa, Madagascar, the Arabian Peninsula, the Indian sub-continent, and South America. Commiphora ...

Deciphering the underlying biological processes comprising the Human Oral Metabiome is important to the understanding of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) disease. The National Institute of Health has launched the Human ...

Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is a prevalent neurodegenerative disease in not only the US but worldwide. Approximately, as of 2020, around 5.8 million Americans, ages 65 and over may be living with AD. AD is a disease where the ...

NASA satellite data products are part of the recent big data explosion. An example of this are the individual physically referenced and processed footprints of data from the AIRS satellite (L2 Data Product), Each 2.3 MB ...

This dissertation describes dragonfly species of Hanover County, Virginia, which species are most likely to be first colonizers of a new or re-constructed impoundment, which species are never found as first colonizers, and ...

Observers of financial markets have long noted that asset prices are very volatile and commonly exhibit jumps (price spikes). Thus, the assumption of a continuous process for asset price behavior is often violated in ...

Previous studies have documented extensive interactions between the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO). These studies have primarily focused on interactions during individual El ...